Thread: Where to buy small highly polished anvil?

You can search for a polished anvil or just polish the item you put on the anvil after wacking on it. I just use a rough piece of steel as an anvil for my pinning. If you search the custom builds forum for threads I started you can see the finished results. You can come at it from the left or come at it from the right. Polishing after peening (or any other work that gets wacked) works best for me.

Originally Posted by Joed

Polishing after peening (or any other work that gets wacked) works best for me.

I also practice to polish out pins after peening.

Originally Posted by KING2011

I also practice to polish out pins after peening.

I have never figured out why????

I know many people do, but other than to look good in the pics why???
Using a highly polished Anvil and a highly polished Hammer will get you near perfect anyway, yes it takes more time, but really that polished look only lasts until the first time you/they have to tighten pins, and you/they will have to tighten the pins...

Sorry I just have never really figured that out...

PS: that Little anvil I have in the pics is about useless for real work I used it once for peening...

Get yourself a Jeweler's block for real work, I use that for final finish peening, and I polished out the anvil plates on my two bench vise' for initial work


http://www.widgetsupply.com/page/WS/CTGY/jeweler-anvil mine is a 4x4x3/4 inch stainless steel block that I keep very polished

I have a 8inch long piece of railroad track. Polished the top, and added a recess for peening. Works great. Polished with my belt sander, working up to a medium 3M fiber belt. Works great.

I bought the smallest vice I could at Lowe's to use as a bench vice then polished one end of it to use as and anvil. Picked it up local so there was not shipping on a heavy item and it only cost like $20, I get tons of uses out of this one portable cheap part...

Here's a link to the vice at Lowe's

Here's a pic of mine...



I obviously need to re-polish it again but it's actually cleaner than this picture shows.

EDIT: And I never have to polish my pins using this set up with a polished peening hammer.